Agriculture committee  That's kind of the idea. By the time they're 65, let's retire these farmers. Let's not keep them there until they die. If that's what it takes to make space to bring new farmers in, then maybe that's one way of doing it. It's a disincentive to keep going. Maybe it's time to let t

Agriculture committee  Of course I have comments. I'm not going to comment about the one thing that's changed from my past, only what I'd like to see coming. What I see coming is a much keener interest from the consumer in where food is grown, which is something they haven't been interested in for the

Agriculture committee  The only thing I want to add is that possibly in the future we're going to see a lot of farm transfers. There just have to be, because we're getting older and things have to move. Is there some way that we can transfer with the farm our area averages, our experience discount, thr

Agriculture committee  Good afternoon. I apologize for my husband, John Cote, not being here, but when the invitation came out to attend this, we both wanted to attend, and I'm really sorry to say that John's a very poor arm wrestler. John and I both farm at Leask, which is about 70 miles north of Sas